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Communication Primitive: READ

Given a shared matrix on a p processor partition, the READ primitive is an operation that allows an arbitrary processor to request and receive q elements from a remote location on . Note that many parallel platforms contain both blocking (one-phase) and non-blocking (two-phase) read function calls. In the BDM model, its complexity is defined to be

 



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David A. Bader
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